1
- of or relating to mode or form as opposed to substance形式的, 方式的, 样式的, 形态的。
2
- Grammar of or denoting the mood of a verb【语法】语气的。
2.1
- relating to a modal verb情态动词的。
3
- Statistics of or relating to a mode; occurring most frequently in a sample or population【统计】众数的。
4
- Music of or denoting music using melodies or harmonies based on modes other than the ordinary major and minor scales【乐】调式的。
5
- Logic (of a proposition) in which the predicate is affirmed of the subject with some qualification, or which involves the affirmation of possibility, impossibility, necessity, or contingency【逻】（命题）模态的。
- Grammar a modal word or construction【语法】情态动词; 情态结构。
派生词
modally
adverb词源
mid 16th cent. (in sense 5)： from medieval Latin modalis, from Latin modus （see MODE）.